When the movie vans began rolling into Lengthy Seaside’s Belmont Shore final week, no person thought a lot about it.
The residential oceanfront neighborhood is such a frequent movie set — Jeep commercials, “Dexter,” Netflix miniseries “Griselda” — locals principally shrug when the crews arrive, then fastidiously steer their curious canine away from the catering tents.
However final week, the vans simply saved coming, in numbers no person had seen earlier than. And there was an virtually comical air of mystery as dozens, after which a whole lot, of staff buzzed round Rosie’s canine seaside.
“I actually do not know,” a employee with a clipboard and a walkie-talkie stated when requested what they had been capturing. In the meantime, a duplicate of one of many metropolis’s iconic lifeguard stands was being assembled behind her — solely this one was lots cleaner and a way more vivid shade of blue than the actual one about 20 yards away.
“I believe it’s a industrial,” one other employee stated as monumental cranes with stadium-style lighting rigs had been maneuvered into place. He claimed to not know what sort of industrial.
By Saturday morning, when that entire part of the seaside was being wrapped in a privateness tent, phrase had gotten out that they had been filming a part of the Olympics closing ceremony — the bit the place the torch is handed from the present host metropolis to the subsequent.
Finneas and Billie Eilish carry out in Lengthy Seaside for the handover celebration of the Olympic Video games.
(Emma McIntyre / Getty Photographs for LA28)
When the large “LA28” sculpture arrived, the thriller was solved.
Quickly, Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre, the Purple Scorching Chili Peppers and Billie Eilish can be up on the makeshift stage — set beside pretend palm bushes brief sufficient to be caught in body — doing their factor in entrance of a small however adoring crowd of extras.
Except for the parking and visitors complications, locals appeared to take the entire thing in stride. That’s, till some media retailers incorrectly recognized the situation because the a lot better-known Venice Seaside.
Filming exercise is seen from a distance at Rosie’s canine seaside, which was remodeled for Olympics functions.
(Jack Dolan / Los Angeles Instances)
“Scandal!” shouted @brandonwenerd on X.
“That is Lengthy Seaside erasure,” lamented _alyssayung_ on TikTok. The shot on her TV display screen clearly confirmed the offshore oil wells — disguised as islands with palm bushes — within the background.
Any SoCal native, definitely anyone from Lengthy Seaside, would acknowledge these immediately.
